Dust-pan



(No Model.)

N. T. FOLSOM.

DUST PAN.

No. 351,316. Patehted Oct. 19, 1886.

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Nnnnnmn r. FOLSOM, on nosron, MASSACHUSETTS.

DUST-PAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 351,316, dated October 19, 1886.

Application filed February 1, 1886. Serial No. 190,452.

T 0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Nnnnnmn T. Forsou, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dust-Pans, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to improve the construction of the boss or protuberance on the under side of a "dust-pan, and at the center of its rear edge; and to this end my invention consists in the improvements hereinafter described and setforth.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a sectional view of a dust-pan provided with my improvements. Fig. 2 represents a sec tion on line m, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a' perspective view of the seamless boss.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

In the drawings, (t represents the body, and b the handle, of a dust-pan of the ordinary or any suitable general form. 0 represents the boss, which is secured to the under side and back of the pan under the handle. Said boss is molded or struck up from a single seamless sheet of metal into the elbow shape shown in Figs. 1 and 2, its transverse section being concavo-convex, and its edges formed to fit the inclined back and the bottom surface of the pan, as well as the under surface of the handle thereof. I prefer to provide said edges with flanges c 0, formed to give the boss a more extended bearing 011 the back and bot tom of the pan, and thus enable the solder to more firmly secure the boss to the pan. The boss is formed by suitable dies, and is not cut or mutilated at any point, so that it possesses the maximum degree of strength, and is capable of being easily and quickly soldered to the pan. Heretofore the boss has been made either from a single piece of metal bent transversely into a U shape, and notched or mutilated, so that it may be bent lengthwise into the form required to adapt it to the back and bottom of the pan, or from two pieces of metal (No model.)

united by a seam at the intersection of the part fitting the bottom with the part fitting the back.

My improved boss is superior to either of those above named in that the strength of the metal of the boss is not impaired by cutting or mutilating it, and no hand-work or soldering is required in forming it, excepting, of course, the mere supplying of the blank from which the boss is made to the formingdies. The seamless boss presents a neat appearance, and therefore makes the pan more desirable in point of looks. The flanges c c, as before mentioned, enable the boss to be more firmly secured than heretofore, and with less solder.

I am aware that heretofore it has been proposed to construct a dust-pan with an elbowboss made from several sections, and that it has also been proposed to make a boss forming a coffee-pot spout from a single piece of sheet metal bent to a semicircular shape in cross-section. My invention will be readily distinguished from such constructions in that I form the boss of a dust-pan from a single piece of metal, and in elbow-shape, and having both horizontal and vertical flanges, the boss being so disposed as to re-en force the handle also.

I claim- The combination, with a dust-pan and handle therefor, of a hollow seamless boss struck up from a single piece of metal, so that its edges will present positive bearing portions .for the bottom and rear surfaces of the pan and the under surface of the handle thereof, and integral flanges c c, substantiall y as setforth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 22d day of January, 1886. I

NEHEMIAH T. FOLSOM.

Witnesses:

G. F. BROWN, ARTHUR XV. CRQSSLEY. 

